To His Coy Mistress | Analysis
This study guide will help you analyse the poem “To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell. The poem is found in Wider Contexts, p. 77. We will show you examples of elements in the text that will be relevant for your analysis. In these notes, we will focus on composition, characters and narrator, language and style, rhythm and rhyme, imagery and metaphors, theme and message and on the questions that you find in Wider Contexts.
Presentation of the poem
Title: “To His Coy Mistress”
Author: Andrew Marvell
Date of Publication: around 1650
Genre: Poem
Andrew Marvell was an important British politician and writer. He was a Member of Parliament for Hull between 1659 and 1678. The poem “To His Coy Mistress” is a metaphysical poem and it represents Marvell’s most famous writing.
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